Collective Action and Political Transformations: The Entangled Experiences in Brazil, South Africa and Europe

Mota, Aurea; Wagner, Peter

ISBN 10: 1474442978 / ISBN 13: 9781474442978

Published by Edinburgh University Press, 2021

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Collective Action and Political Transformations: The Entangled Experiences in Brazil, South Africa and Europe
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1474442978
• ISBN 13: 9781474442978
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This book acknowledges the severe problems with effective and significant collective action, but arrives at a more optimistic diagnosis of our time by rethinking the political from the angle of the experiences with progressive and conservative collective action in different parts of the globe: Brazil, South Africa and Europe. By doing so, it contributes a critical perspective to the debate about the possible impact of parts of the Global South for positive social and political developments worldwide.

About the Authors

Aurea Mota is Associate Researcher at the Center for the Study of Culture, Politics, and Society (CECUPS) at the University of Barcelona. Her first book was published by the Latin Americana Research Council of Social Science (CLACSO).

Peter Wagner is Catalan Institute for Research and Advanced Studies Research Professor at the University of Barcelona. His publications include The Trouble with Democracy (Edinburgh University Press, 2016), African, American and European Trajectories of Modernity (Edinburgh University Press, 2015), Modernity as Experience and Interpretation (Polity Press, 2008), A History and Theory of the Social Sciences (Sage, 2001), Theorising Modernity (Sage, 2001) and A Sociology of Modernity (Routledge, 1994).